[vorbis] bitrtate peeling and lossless compression

[Kenneth Arnold]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 02:47:39PM -0500, Myles Buckley wrote:
> If you want truly lossless compression then look at (in alphabetical order)
> LPAC - http://www-ft.ee.tu-berlin.de/~liebchen/lpac.html, Monkey Audio - 
> http://www.monkeysaudio.com/index.html, RK Audio - 
> http://rksoft.virtualave.net/rkau.html or Squish - we all know where to find
> this one.

Has somebody been overloooking FLAC? http://flac.sourceforg.net/

> These will allow you to get the EXACT input file at a later time.  AFAIK, 
> there is no method of 'peeling' any of these.

Lossless codecs are typically used for production and archival. For
distribution almost everyone uses a lossy codec. Until Monty gets
cascading and peeling in Vorbis, you can store the raw sound data in
e.g. FLAC, then decompress and encode with Vorbis for any
distribution.


-- 
Kenneth Arnold <ken at arnoldnet.net> / kcarnold / Linux user #180115
http://arnoldnet.net/~kcarnold/



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